Wednesday 8 May 2019

2001 - A Space Jihad

FYC: "2001 - A Space Jihad" In honour of the 20th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's elevation to star baby,  and of Ramadan , ISIS  presents its Islamist remake of 2001.

The plot closely follows the original, until the computer HALAL9000 goes mad because it's not sure how best to point the spaceship towards Mecca for prayers, and decides instead that the crew are all infidels and executes them, before martyring itself by crashing into the Martian monolith.

Mind-expanding psychedelia by The Silver Monkey

Thursday 2 May 2019

Dagobah: a Star Wars Story

FYC: "Dagobah: a Star Wars Story"

Yoda's ghost is dispossessed of his hovel when greedy developers from Cloud City move in, with the most powerful Force in the galaxy : gentrification , speculative off world investments and money laundering.

Soon Yoda's  beloved swamp is bull dozed to make way for artisan Bespin style baguette bakeries and fixed gear droid workshops.

Yoda tries to haunt the shit out of the newcomers, but things go from bad to worse when the forever empty luxury highrises go up, local politicians ironically using Yoda's own death from malaria as the pretext.

Significantly more exciting than the trade negotiations in episode two.




VFX by the Silver Monkey